Arizona's immigration crackdown both was inspired by and inspires fear. "Panico." That's how Joel Navarette, the coordinator of the...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Our government's use of torture puts being both American and Catholic in serious conflict, says this theologian. Theological research doesn't often...
Can fair trade grow beyond just coffee? Sunday Mass has ended at St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church in Fairfax, Virginia, and parishioners are filing out. Deb...
With Arizona's new immigration law causing debate around the country, it's best to start off on the same page about the facts. Lawyer Tom Roach clears...
The founder of the international lay movement of the Sant’Egidio Community explains how his group has been able to build peace, one conflict at a time. When...
By Andrea Riccardi as told to Desmond O’Grady in a U.S. Catholic interview conducted by O’Grady. It had been the custom in Rome that the diocesan...
Immigrants today experience economic, social, legal, and pyschological crucifixions. Last April I was working on a video documentary on the U.S.-Mexican border...
In 1967 U.S. Catholic editors call for a swift end to the Vietnam War. “It is our contention that the war in Vietnam is wrong, is unjust, is...
Not all JustFaith groups meet in parish meeting rooms. One allows inmates to deepen their faith and serve their community behind bars. Eleven men sit in a...
In a 1990s article from Salt of the Earth, Jack Jezreel wrote about the surprising success of JustFaith, the parish-based program on social justice, at...
